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Tarmac is providing much needed funding to help the Peak District National Park in England employ a new member of staff to support its conservation volunteering programme.

The UK aggregate giant is committing £20,000 (€26,000) each year for the next five years and will directly provide the money and volunteer hours needed to care for and protect the very special landscape of Britain’s first National Park. Employees from Tarmac will also help the new Volunteer Projects Assistant with projects across the N

Great Britain produces 360million tonnes/year of aggregates and manufactured mineral products, with the mineral products industry recording a £20 billion annual turnover, according to a new MPA (Mineral Products Association) report.

Presenting detailed analysis of the latest data for each product, the MPA report, titled ‘The Mineral Products Industry at a Glance’, highlights the significant contribution the industry makes to the UK economy from over 2,000 active sites and plants.

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Breedon has finalised the senior team who will lead the group following its planned acquisition of Hope Construction Materials.

The Breedon group's expanded executive committee will comprise senior executives from both Breedon and Hope and from outside.

Pat Ward, Breedon group chief executive, said: "We're fortunate to have been able to draw on considerable experience and deep industry knowledge from both companies, and externally, in assembling our executive committee. I believe we have selected a s

Quarrying equipment form leading globally renowned manufacturers including Volvo Construction Equipment, Hyundai and Liebherr will be up for grabs at

Euro Auctions 46th Dormagen, Germany auction on 6-7 July 2016.

Specific models going under the hammer include a 2008 Volvo A25E ADT, and a 2005 Hyundai R210LC-7 crawler excavator.

The two-day auction gets underway both days from 8.30am. For more information go to www.euroauctions.com

Haver & Boecker has introduced the Tyler F-Class Split-Bucket Mounting System. The new solution is said to offer simplified maintenance and bearings change outs for operators, while also halving service downtime. The rubber mount housing, or split-bucket system, provides operators easy access to critical components, such as rubber mounts and body brackets.

All new Tyler F-Class Vibrating Screens feature the upgraded mounting system, which includes 16 rubber mounts and four body brackets.

The split-buc

Enno Straten will become the new managing director of Continental’s business unit Commercial Specialty Tires (CST) from 1 July 2016.

Straten succeeds Dr. Michael Märtens who left the company last year to concentrate on other projects outside the industry. A staff member at Continental for 17 years, Straten will report directly to Dr. Andreas Esser, executive vice president of Continental‘s business unit Commercial Vehicle Tires.

“With Enno Straten, we have gained a very experienced manager for the bus

Aggregate Industries, a leading building materials supplier to the UK construction and infrastructure industry, has named Eddie Stobart as its Concrete Products division’s new logistics supply partner.

From October 2016, logistics for Aggregate Industries’ Concrete Products division will transfer to Eddie Stobart’s manufacturing and industrial business unit. The new five-year contract, awarded following an extensive tender, will see the haulier carrying Bradstone, Charcon and Masterblock products from 1

Leading infrastructure services company FM Conway has completed the relocation of its head office to Sevenoaks in county Kent, England.

FM Conway has been based in Dartford, Kent since 2000, with its head office, workshops and a large materials recycling facility based at Rochester Way. The move will see 250 FM Conway employees moving to the new headquarters in Sevenoaks, including all of the company’s support staff as well as its senior management team.

The three-storey office block on the Vestry

Hillhead 2016 visitors will get a closer look at McCloskey International’s jaw crusher duo, the J40V2 and J45R at the event in Buxton Quarry, county Derbyshire, England, from 28-30 June.

The J40V2 will be at work in the demo area, feeding an ST80T tracked stacker, and a J45R jaw crusher will be on display along with an I44 impact chamber.

McCloskey International will be running the J40V2, with its heavy-duty cheek plate design, 40" wide jaw and user-friendly control panel offering machine diagnostics.

LiuGong chairman Zeng Guang’an has described how the Chinese construction equipment manufacturing giant has turned Dressta, its Polish crawler dozer brand, into a “viable, globally competitive business”.

Speaking at the China-Poland Business Forum in Warsaw attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s during his state visit to Poland, Guang’an said: “In the past four and half years, LiuGong has invested heavily to build the core success factors to drive business improvement including technology & product l

A new event dedicated to the European concrete industry is being held in Paris, France next year.

World of Concrete Europe - Exhibition & Forum will be staged on 22-23 February 2017 at the Palais de Congrès and will comprise an exhibition area and a programme of seminars and round tables.

Organisers are describing it as first event dedicated to the European concrete market, representing an unprecedented platform for information, inspiration and exchange for all industry professionals.

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Hæhre Entreprenør, one of the largest contractors in Norway, has bought ten new Doosan DA40 Stage IV/Tier 4 final compliant articulated dump trucks (ADTs) from Doosan Bobcat, a subsidiary of Rosendal Maskin, the Doosan and Bobcat dealer for Norway, based in Askim.

Manufactured at the Doosan plant at Molde, Norway, the new trucks will replace five Doosan MT41 ADTs, each of which has provided between 12-15,000 hours of continuous hauling work on Hæhre projects throughout Norway.

The new order follows

Marmomacc, an event said to be the world's most important trade fair in marble, granite, processing technology, design and training fields, returns to Verona, Italy, from 28 September to 1 October, 2016.

“Today, Marmomacc is the landmark international trade fair for operators in the natural stone value chain,” says Maurizio Danese, president of Veronafiere.

“Thanks to the added value of the Verona marble district, over the years we have created a promotional platform at the service of the global stone

HeidelbergCement and Italcementi have reached an agreement with the United States Federal Trade Commission to allow HeidelbergCement’s acquisition of the Italian cement firm to proceed on schedule. The proposed divestment of operations in the US, primarily consisting of Italcementi’s Martinsburg, West Virginia cement plant and up to eleven terminals, was accepted by the Federal Trade Commission. All competition approvals necessary for closing the Italcementi acquisition have now been obtained, a statement r

The latest additions to Volvo Construction Equipment’s range of wheeled loader buckets are said to combine clever design with unbeatable durability for long-lasting performance matched to the application and conditions on the jobsite.

Volvo CE has introduced three new buckets specifically designed to fit Volvo L110-L350 wheeled loaders – Volvo Sand bucket, Volvo Rehandling Flat Floor bucket, and Volvo Rehandling bucket, which will replace the current model.

Optimised for the application, Volvo Reha

For UK recycling, plant hire and crusher and screener specialist Paul Chapman and Sons (PCS), the best things come in threes - having purchased a third Bucket Bundie refuelling solution.

Exclusively manufactured in the UK by ACE Plant, the Bucket Bundie is an innovative bunded fuel tank that can be easily picked up and moved around site in the bucket of a wheeled loader or telehandler.

Having originally bought a conventional 1,000litre capacity static Bundie Bowser from ACE Plant in 2014, county Leic

The three millionth engine has come off the production line at Deutz's main factory in Cologne-Porz, Germany. This engine represents yet another milestone in the long history of the Cologne-based engine manufacturer. Just last year, Deutz notched up the nine millionth engine to be built worldwide since the company was founded more than 150 years ago.

Deutz opened the engine plant in Cologne-Porz back in June 1993 – at the time one of the most modern of its kind in the world. Today, Cologne-Porz is home t

Organisers of bauma China 2016 say that more than 2,400 exhibitors have signed up already for to the prestigious exhibition being held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) from 22-25 November.

Speaking about the eighth International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines and Construction Vehicles, set to attract more than 180,000 attendees, predominantly from Asia, Collin Davis, project group manager at bauma China 2016 organisers Messe München

Aggregate Industries has completed the integration of 100 plus connected Caterpillar machines across its UK sites in a five-year deal with Finning Managed Solutions (FMS), a part of Finning UK and Ireland.

Including one of the first Cat 982M wheeled loaders in the UK, the new equipment is said to represent the largest deployment of new Caterpillar connected quarry industry machines ever seen in the UK. Distributed across 44 Aggregate Industries (AI) sites in the British Isles, including operations in Sc

A daylong Exhibitor Meeting for CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2017 on 23 August 2016 in Chicago aims to help companies stand out at the US shows and achieve maximum return on investment, whether they’re first-time or veteran exhibitors or have limited resources.

The program is complimentary for CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE exhibitors, but registration is required.

A networking reception with official show vendors kicks off the programme on 22 August. All sessions are at the Loews Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont, Il